Thank you for your interest in publishing your work with Atticus Review. We are an online journal that publishes stories, poems, essays and other forms of creative digital media.
If you’re a writer who tests limits, we want to read your best stuff. We tend to like work that makes us think. We like work that toys with genre boundaries. We like subversive. We like heartfelt. We like lyrical. We like enchanting. We like weird. We like dark humor. We are the island of misfit toys. If you feel like you belong on this island, please send your work our way.
We only consider unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw your work immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
NOTE: CNF, FICTION, AND POETRY SUBMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED THROUGH THE REST OF THE SUMMER. WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN IN THE FALL.
SUPERUNKNOWN SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN. SEE GUIDELINES BELOW.
BOOK REVIEWS:
WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING BOOK REVIEWS OR BOOK REVIEW PROPOSALS.
MIXED MEDIA SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN YEAR-ROUND:
Atticus Review seeks all types of electronic/digital/interactive literature as well as short/experimental films, book trailers, audio soundscapes and sonic compositions. If you like to push literary boundaries via digital technologies, send us your best.
To submit, send an email with subject “Mixed Media Submission” to mixedmedia@atticusreview.org. If possible, we prefer that you send links to media on Vimeo or YouTube or Soundcloud (or wherever the work is posted online) rather than send us audio/video files directly.
FOR ALL WORK:
By agreeing to have Atticus Review publish a story, essay, poem, or other work (“The Work”) the author of The Work (“Author”) agrees to grant Atticus Review first rights to publish The Work at atticusreview.org as well as the right to include The Work in a future issue of the Atticus Review Print Annual. After first publication by Atticus Review, and excepting the possible future inclusion in the Atticus Review Print Annual, all rights to The Work revert back to Author. If Author publishes The Work elsewhere after Atticus Review’s initial publication, Atticus Review requests that acknowledgement be given to Atticus Review in the journal, Web site, anthology, or other publication.
This series will be comprised of pieces that are more or less "close readings" of songs. Take into account a particular song's musical and lyrical components, and set those against your own personal reflections. Write about the way a certain song makes you feel, or the events that make the song important to you.
The pieces should be nonfiction, and no longer than 1,500 words. We're very open to hybrid/experimental.
We are NOT looking for music reviews or liner notes. We are looking for personal reflections about a song. We want you to tie together music and meaning. While the piece can be about you or your life, try to bring in other cultural elements.
Here is one example of what we are looking for and here is another one
If you've been previously published by Atticus Review we would love to hear about what has been happening in your writing career. Please let us know and we will include it in a monthly update on our blog.
*Please submit news in third person and attach an author photo.